“Undo” feature in Visual Studio 2008 stops working

Question

I\'ll be coding along in Visual Studio 2008, and eventually I make a mistake. I press CTRL - Z to undo and NOTHING HAPPENS. I\'m not talking about anything

Answer 1

I had the same problem recently. I think it was caused by an exception in ReSharper (these are shown in the status bar of Visual Studio), at least ReSharper showed a message box to submit some errors to JetBrains at around the same time.

If you experience this problem again, verify whether ReSharper shows any errors/exceptions, and if it does, you might want to submit them to JetBrains.

After restarting Visual Studio, undo worked again (for me).

Answer 2

If the other solutions don't work

I think a common problem is that keyboard bindings get changed somehow. It's easiest just to go and reset them like this:

• Reset them. Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard -> Reset -> OK
• Restart Visual Studio

Answer 3

If anyone is still following this, Undo disables for me when I try to Ctrl+Shift+Enter to jump to a new line.

I am using VS2008 Pro, WinXP, editing an XSLT file. Resetting keyboard settings does not help. AnkhSVN installed but not in use.

Answer 4

I had this in visual studio 2008SP1 - one day the undo function just completely stopped working. Looking at a previous posters comment, i just did :

Tools -> Option -> Environment -> Keyboard Press Reset

After restarting visual studio, undo now works.

Answer 5

I would check out your clipboard ring and watch and see when/if it gets cleared out. If that ever happens you'll know you just lost your undo. Also, if you can see it happen then you might have a better chance of identifying what is causing it.

Answer 6

I have observed that the undo option is being disabled when I press CTRL + ENTER accidentally, and I fixed this by removing this hotkey.

To do this go to : Tools -> Option -> Environment -> Keyboard and remove Edit.LineOpenAbove shortcut.